Pınar Öğrenci 

Artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (1973, Van, Turkey) lives in Berlin. Her background in architecture and restoration informs her experiential, video-based works and installations, which engage with decolonial and feminist concerns at the intersection of social, political, and spatial research. She engages with place and architecture as sites where violence materializes. Her artistic language foregrounds the intergenerational transmission of stories, often circulated through popular genres and practices, ranging from poetry and music to public protest. Her practice serves as a response to a collective past often left in silence and urging her audience to imagine a future built on justice, equality, and collective healing. Her works invites us to witness the rich, multifaceted layers of survival, resistance, resilience.

Pınar Öğrenci's works have been exhibited widely at museums, art institutions including HKW (2025), Venice Biennial (2024),  Harward Museum (2024), documenta fifteen (2022), 12th Gwangju Biennial (2018), 6th Athens Biennial (2018), Sharjah Biennial13 (2017), MAXXI Museum, Rome ( 2016), SALT Galata, Istanbul (2015-6).

She had solo exhibitions at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG, 2025), Frac Bretagne (2024), Berlinische Galerie (2023), Kunst Haus-Hundertwasser Museum in Vienna(2017) and Depo İstanbul (2017).

Pınar @ DAI:

2025-2026 COOP study group ~ Cemeterial Ecologies, Grieving and Zombie Time